Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) - All Back To Mine

In this episode - recorded live at the wonderful Stand in Glasgow - I’m joined by a legendary musician, singer and songwriter who’s been associated with so many bands and artists that if I listed them all, we’d be here till next week… 

They include, however, The Pretty Flowers - with BMX Bandits’ Duglas T Stewart, The Soup Dragons’ Sean Dickson, and The Vaselines’ Frances McKee - not to mention The Boy Hairdressers, The Clouds, The New Mendicants, Jonny, Jad Fair, De La Soul, Butler Blake and Grant - and Teenage Fanclub…

He is the glorious Norman Blake, and he chatted about his life and work - and a favourite Scottish album, film and book - via budgies, Bellshill, boiler suits, roller blinds, touring with Nirvana - and rock ‘n’ roll bungalows…

He played us some fab songs live too, he told me he’d rocked up with his guitar tuned to Nashville - but music on podcasts is a bloody minefield for various rights reasons - so I can’t include them.. Trust me, they were awesome - and not least because I accompanied him, uninvited, on the tambourine… 

Go buy all his records though, and I’ll list some upcoming live shows after our chat. But for now - to a winter’s afternoon, on the Great Western Road, with Norman Blake…